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the time i brought a pie to a gun fight
this pie is the best pie i've ever made. i won't throw it like a frisbee because my brother said i can't throw to save my life. i hug the pie to my granny christmas sweater, the one with the sequinned ornaments that scratch wiggly lines in my arms. it…
Ode to a Stamp
Oh sticky little stampy friend How I long to lick your end And place you on an envelope To send you via post with hope That one day you will find the one To whom your address bids you run But maybe not so freaky fast Because you pay a…
Helicopter Tiddies
On a slow day at work, my coworkers talk about breasts— mammograms, and speculums. Our worst IUD experiences, loud and brassy. Who fainted. Who drove themselves home. Whose body rejected it like a sharpened candy cane from their cervix. Whose tits are dense like hot fudge brownies left in the…
We Named Her Karma
In her dotage, our cat grows profound. She sits close to our faces, stares into us with her jaundiced eyes, stretches out one paw in our direction. “These are my people. Family is all that matters. As long as we are together, that is enough.” She starts the night in…
Shakespeare Writes Clickbait
The theaters were closed by plague. Again. Will needed to make some money, fast. He had a wife and two daughters to feed, A bolt-hole in the country to fund, And that second-best bed had seen better days. Googling, he spotted a sponsored link: Online copywriters wanted. Must be able…
Nintendhoe
Going down my pipe like he's mario And I'm gonna super smash his bro. He's got an ass like peach but a dick like toad— Going off course on rainbow road. He's a shy guy so he leaves his mask on. Cant have a Daisy, so he turns the masc…
pov: you’re a cater waiter at the metaverse conference
Unnatural Theology
Being a First-Hand Account of the Psychological Effects of Instrumental Conditioning Argument: A rat, having been used as a test subject in a series of instrumental conditioning experiments, one day finds that the pellets cease to be dispensed through the pellet dispenser (unbeknownst to him, a catastrophe has all but…
The Unexpected Poetry of NextDoor Digest
Today's Top Posts: My dogs started to growl, so I sat up and looked outside. We fell in love with our new vision. I yelled out the window, “We see what you're doing!” Today's Top Posts: Sparkly “50” wine glass and body sash are ready to adorn your special someone…
The Hallmark Boyfriends
Holiday season approaches, but we're not filled with cheer, Instead, the same sensation we encounter every year. Lights twinkle in our cities, the streets are covered in snow, But a sense of dread hangs over us, our hearts are not aglow. For we know that in December, when Santa comes…
A Sex Therapist’s 50 Ways to Please Your Lover (Paul Simon)
Illustration by Annie Mydla using Shutterstock AI If you're having problems in the bed, not to worry The answer is easy if you take it from me A licensed expert in sexual psychology There must be fifty ways to please your lover She said, I know the “big O” may…
On Being the Glamorous Blonde Villain from All Those Nineties Kids’ Movies
Illustration by Annie Mydla using Shutterstock AI “Aren't I a human being? Don't I yearn, and ache, and shop? Don't I deserve love? And jewelry?” —Debbie Jellinsky, Addams Family Values “Being young and beautiful isn't a crime, you know.” —Meredith Blake, The Parent Trap I'm here to marry your father…
Epistle to My Lord Concerning My Sons’ Future Spouses
Illustration by Whitney Sasaki, @whitneykittyart Because I will not be around forever, Lord, I find myself considering those who will feed my sons after I'm gone, Lord, for my sons are joyous eaters, joyous and prodigious, but care not for the ways of the kitchen, despite my attempts at instruction.…
Ashlen Renner
Ashlen Renner is a journalist from North Carolina and a fellow at the Cheuse International Writers Center. When she is not recovering from rollerblading-related accidents, Ashlen is working on a book of obscure medieval saints and their weird stories. Ashlen is finishing her MFA at George Mason University studying creative…
Riley McNutt
Riley McNutt (he/him) is a professional stage actor out of Minneapolis, MN. Writing plays and sketches has always called to him, but poetry only recently entered his life. It was the potential for dark comedy in a cheerily-metered verse that sparked his interest. This poem is the first submission to…
C. E. Janecek
C. E. Janecek is a Czech American writer, freelance editor, and voracious reader who received a poetry MFA from Colorado State University. Janecek's writing has appeared in Poetry, Gulf Coast, Cream City Review, Booth, and elsewhere. Photo by Paul Christean
Mark Jackett
Mark is a husband, and father of two daughters, from Port Jefferson, New York. He teaches high school English in Smithtown, New York, where he infuses poetry into his students' lives on a regular basis. When writing, Mark attempts to achieve the standard he once heard set by Juan Felipe-Herrera,…
Rob Holtom
Rob Holtom is from London and currently lives in South East England. His day job is in tech. His passions outside work include Shakespeare, art, and creative writing. Sometimes all these things converge, and that is a good day.
Patrick Heneghan
Patrick (P.J.) Heneghan first fell in love with poetry at the age of 9, where he wrote a 20-page booklet of poems entirely about Halloween. He would go on to join several creative writing clubs in order to actually become kind of alright at writing poetry. From confessional poems and…
Stella-Ann Harris
Stella-Ann Harris is a writer and editorial assistant at Air/Light. She currently lives in Brooklyn.
Taliesin Gore
Taliesin Gore's work has appeared or is upcoming in BFS Horizons, Bleed Error, Illumen, Dream Catcher, and elsewhere. He has also been a finalist in Omnidawn's Fabulist Fiction Contest (twice). He lives in a shed in Dorset, England, the attic of which is periodically populated by rats, which exert a…
K. E. Flann
K.E. Flann is the author of How to Survive a Human Attack: A Guide for Werewolves, Mummies, Cyborgs, Ghosts, Nuclear Mutants, and Other Movie Monsters, which was a New York Times/Wirecutter pick for “Gifts We Want to Give”. Her short humor pieces have been published in The Boston Globe, McSweeney's,…
Josh Baumgart
Josh Baumgart is an itinerant screenwriter and overthinker. You can read his works in McSweeney's Internet Tendency and Points in Case.
Ellie Black
Ellie Black is a PhD student in Creative Writing at the University of Mississippi, where she also received her MFA. Winner of the 2023 Pinch Literary Award in Poetry, she has work published in or forthcoming from Ninth Letter, Mississippi Review, The Offing, Black Warrior Review, Best New Poets, and…
Beth Ann Fennelly
Beth Ann Fennelly, a 2020 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow, was the poet laureate of Mississippi from 2016-2021 and teaches in the MFA Program at the University of Mississippi. She's won grants and awards from the N.E.A., the United States Artists, a Pushcart, and a Fulbright to Brazil. Fennelly…
Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest 2023
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